How to Use compute in a Sentence

compute

verb
Definition of computenext
Synonyms for computenext
  • Except that amount doesn't compute with what Giuliani has said.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • Recent advances in computing mean that vast data sets are no longer too unwieldy for use by researchers.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • Privacy - Terms Trouble is, fan is short for fanatic and rational doesn’t always compute.
    — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 1 June 2018
  • Quantum computing stocks climbed during Tuesday morning trading after plunging earlier in the week.
    — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Next month, Nielsen and Billboard will adjust their formula to reconcile streams, downloads and sales in computing chart positions.
    — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • This data processing system must be able to handle large volumes of information in real time, and that may take significant computing resources.
    — Don Murray, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But massive improvements in computing power have turned the dismal science into an increasingly empirical one.
    — The Economist, 26 May 2018
  • Just does not compute in my mind of what that looks like.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • The idea of being an arm's length away from art just doesn't compute any more.
    — refinery29.com, 18 June 2018
  • The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
    — oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
    — Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Thin and lightweight, the LG Gram Pro is the perfect choice for computing on the go.
    — PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The thresholds computed in this way are all less than 3, so the triples relate to the part of the spectrum below 3.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The program that does the detection would compute a value based on the text and be able to compare that to a stored key.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • This gives the iPad Pro a greater ability to compute AI tasks on-device.
    — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
  • The next task was to figure out how to compute the Berry curvature using QAC.
    — Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The news may very well be a major achievement in the quantum computing world.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
  • There are seven ways to demonstrate that 2% doesn’t compute.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Yes, the Big 12 has been anointed as the best men’s basketball conference in the land by those who talk and those who compute.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The thresholds in the Markov spectrum come from a number c in this sequence by computing sqrt(9 - 4/c^2).
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Servers leave them on tables at meal’s end, and customers insert cards, compute tips and sign.
    — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The thought bloomed that something had happened to his sister but still wouldn’t fully compute in Phillips' mind.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
  • By measuring the motions of stars, astronomers hope to compute the orbits of stars around the galaxy—and therefore, the structure of the Milky Way.
    — H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
    — Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022
  • Not anytime in the near future, and for two reasons, one of which is computing power.
    — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Theft of resources: This refers to the unauthorized use of computing resources.
    — Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The Herald first computed the 85th percentile — the figure below which 85% of the sentences fell — and then re-coded all the sentences above that value as that figure.
    — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025

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